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THE APPEAL
AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
ISSUED WEEKLT
J. .ADAMS. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
ST. PAUL OFFICE
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1921.
A MISGUIDED MOVEMENT!
THE APPEAL has noticed in sev
eral papers the organization of the
Federal Employes' League composed
of colored federal employes, which we
believe is a great mistake and will
only serve to increase the segregation
now practiced in Washington.
There is already a Federal Em
ployes' Union in which no color line
is drawn and to which federal em
ployes of all races, creeds and colors
are admitted, so the formation of a
segregated organization is not only
not necessary but positively danger
ous.
It is not surprising that Perry W.
Howard is the1
president of the or-
ganization. The article refers to him
as a Special Assistant Attorney Gen
eral, which he js not. Mr. Howard is
Special Assistant TO the Attorney
General which is quite a different
thing. It is a segregated place.
How the men who have gone into
this organization can hope to eradi
cate segregation by segregating them
selves is not clear. The colored fed
eral employes should become mem
bers of the union which is open to
all and work in harmony with their
brother employes of various races,
creeds and colors.
Men and women, do not segregate
yourselves.
TROUBLE WITH THE SOUTH.
In an article in the Smart Set Mr.
H. L. Mencken, a "Southern man, says,
that the South is still suffering from
the debacle of fifty-six years ago. He
says*.
"That debacle almost obliterated
civilization in the whole region, and
.so the surviving Confederates took to
sentimentalizing the civilization that
had collapsed and departed. That
sentimentalization, in the end, became
a sort of sacred duty, a benevolent
mania, a furious and unintelligible
cult, and the Southerner himself a
walking sarcophagus of dead ideas.
The result was that human
thought in the whole region was re
duced to a mere poll-parroting of for
mulae. The Southerner became the
most indiotic patriot ever heard of in
terrestrial history. Everything South
ern took on sacrosanctity in his eyes,
from the swinish politics of the job
seekers who herded the cracker and
Confederate veteran vote to the bar
baric theology of the Methodist and
Baptist dervishes, and from the pious
nonsense of the roving Prohibitionists,
free-silver fanatics and generalized
chautauquans to the revolting inde
cencies of the Southern cotton-mill
THE SIN OF SILENCE
"PEARL GOOD" A MISNOMER.
That, "there is nothing in a name,"
has been decidedly verified in Port
land, Ore. Pretty, blue-eyed Pearl
Good, aged seventeen years, has con-,
fessed to having committed forty-six
burglaries. Her plunder consists of
money, jewelry, clothing, toilet arti
cles, etf. She is one of a family of
eight children, is average in dress,
manner and speech, and is not at all
"hard boiled" though evidently a bad
egg. In nearly every one of her rob
beries entry was made by means of a
latchkey, and the fair "lady Raffles"
says the average housewife leaves
her doorkey "hidden" in places most
easily discovered by the housebreaker.
This rare Pearl evidently saw some
of the film pictures of that great
artist, Pearl White, and emulated her
example.
A SHAFT OF JEFF DAVIS.
It will be recaled that Louisville,
Kentucky never yielded allegiance to
the illegal Confederate government
and yet the Daughters of the Confed
eracy have selected that city as the
site for a monument 351 feet high to
the memory of Jefferson Davis.
Davis was in no sense a great
statesman, simply a clever politician,
but as an ardent advocate of the Con
federacy whose capstone was slavery,
he typifies a doctrine which cost our
country a million lives and a billion
in gold.
The monument will serve no useful
purpose as the cause it glorifies is
dead. The Daughters of the Confed
eracy ought to devote the money they
will spend on the Davis shaft to aid
ing the veterans who fought to pre
serve our liberties ,rather than waste
it on a memorial ip the man whose
life was given to the destruction of
his native land.
WERE THE CARDS STACKED?
Leonard Wood and W. Cameron
Forbes to investigate present condi
tions and the report just made, which
will not reach Washington for five or
six weeks, recommends that the Unit
ed States must keep the islands.
Moton was put in as head of the
school because the interests which
To sin by silence when we should
protest makes cowards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
injustice, ignorance and lust, the in-
quisition yet would serve the law, and
guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
TA
owners. All conceivable human prob
lems were precipitated into platitudes.
To question these platitudes became
downright dangerous to life and
limb."
Twenty-three years ago the United
States occupied the Philippine Islands,
promising independence for the Fili
pinos in about twenty years or as
soon as the natives were "qualified for expected that Irish-American citizens
freedom." will be appointed only with the under-
Shortly after coming into power the standing that they shall look after
present Republican administration the Irishman's interests. Hebrews
sent a mission consisting of Gen.{will look after those affairs, which
meeting at which the election took
place, some one suggested .that Scott
would not be so easy to control as
Moton. That decided the matter.
THE APPEAL does not under
estimate the strength of Dr. Moton:
He has powerful interests behind him
and he has a large following, but he
is in no sense a great thinker or a
leader in thought. There are thou
sands of colored men who are in
every way superior intellectually and
yet are no|^ hampered by some of the
traits he has shown. Specifically, in
the matter of his alleged refusal to
protest against the ejection of his
wife from a Pullman sleeper several
years ago, his alleged speeches to the
colored soldiers in France, and his
continual laudation of the South in
his public utterances.
Dr. Moton has recently written a
book called, "Finding a Way Out,"
but as a reviewer said, he seemed to
be "getting in deeper." Although
written in grammatical English, there
are no "high lights" and certainly no
evidences of gfeat thought or literary
ability.
To the most casual observer, "Ma-
jor" M|to is not a leader in thought,
but a follower, who not only thinks,
but says that which pleases the
South, and as a reward the South
gives him not justice for the people
he is picked to represent, but a pal
on the back as a "good negro."
"SPECIAL,EXPERT."
Two months ago, long before the. Dr. Crossland gave an only son to
investigation had been completed, Gen.
Wood was nominated for governor.
Did Uncle Sam stack the cards on
the liberty-loving Filipinos?
NOT A LEADER IN THOUGHT.
Bearing a Tuskegee date line, an' clusively.
support it wished him there as aj
mouthpiece through which they could]
express THEIR thoughts. Emmett J.'
excerpt from the London (England) race prejudice rather than stamp out
Times is going the rounds of the the crowning infamy of this age.
press, lauding the head of Tuskegee Financially, we may be benefited, but
Institute and it says among other as a matter of fundamental princi-
things: "Dr. Moton is the leader of ple
Negro thought in the U. S." This our progress in the direction of full
statement needs some qualification. I American
citizenshipd anr
The following from the Richmond
Planet upholds THE APPEAL'S con-*,
tention and says truly that the policy
will serve to "fan the flames of race
prejudice
Hon. Charles R. Forbes of Seattle,
Washington, who was recently ap
pointed Director of the United States
Veterans' Bureau, has seen fit to ap
point Dr. J. R. A. Crossland of St.
Joseph, Mo., "Special Expert" in this
department to look after the inter
ests of colored ex-service men. This
is a fitting recognition of one of our
ablest leaders. Nevertheless, it em
phasizes the drawing of the color line
against which the far-seeing leaders
of the colored people in this country
have protested without seeming effect.
Under this ruling, it may soon be
Scott was the logical candidate for claims of theappointeveterans black of -th
the place, ,.but it is said that at the late World War. The claims of the
affect the Jews. Indians will be ap
pointed to look after the interests of
the Indians, the Germans to look after
the Germans. Italians to look after
the interests of the Italians, and so
on.
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the cause in Europe and as a result,
he is confined in his operations to the
race with which his son was identi
fied. We understand now, that col
lored men will hold offices all right,
but these offices will be confined to
work amongst the colored people ex
This will fan the flames of
an
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really, accepted a Jim Crow job
Perry Howard, another prominent
"Uncle Tom" politician, also accepted
a Jim Crow job. As long as we take
these political handouts, as long as
our "leaders" are too hungry to re
fuse them, of course they will be ten
dered our race.
(APPEAL Editorial Sept. 3, 1921.)
THE APPEAL is sorry to note that
the color line has been drawn in the
new Veterans' Bureau by the organ
ization of a "Colored Division" and
the appointment of Dr. J. R. A. Cross
land as its head.
Crossland lost a son who fell "fight
ing for democracy" in France, and it
is a poor reward for the father to
be given a segregated bureau. It is
also said that he was an effective
speaker in the last campaign, in
which it was given out that the Re
publican party would abolish segre
gation in the departments at Wash
ington. If these things are true
Crossland deserves better treatment
at the hands of the victors, and he
also should have refused the appoint
ment as undemocratic and demanded
of the -white and Dr., Crossland has,goes on as it is promoted by the
difference in the social status of the
white and colored people. The surest
way to "maintain racial purity" would
be to repeal all of the Southern jim
crow laws. So long as the colored
people are a voteless people and on a
lowerx
tment ,as,is given to
the -same
other groups44of American citizens.
One Lasker,\a Jew, was made head
of the U. S. Shipping Board. Repre
sentatives of other racial groups have
been given places, but not in segre
gated bureaus. No President of the
United States would dare offer a Jew
a place as the head of a segregated
Jewish bureau. There is no such
place and never will be. Only color
ed people are segregated by this* a
leged democracy.
Some people may think that the
"special" appointments which have
been handed out by the present Re
publican administration are forward
movements, but they are really nails
in the coffin of democracy and are
dangerous to the social and political
status of the colored people.
The Administration ought to cut
out these "special" jobs, eliminate
segregation which was promised in
the campaign, and if colored men are
to have appoinotments let them be
on a level with those given to other
groups of American citizens.
Better no places at all than those
which lower the status of the race
and automatically make their holders
defenders of segregation.
SOUTHERN "FORWARD" BUNK.
Recently there was a laymen's con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, held at Lake Juna
laska, N. C, and one Rev. W. W.
Alexander of Atlanta, Ga., took the
stage and said:
"The next big forward step in the
inter-racial readjustment is to come
from the South, and the reason for it
is perfectly apparent. The South can
afford to do it. Then too the South
has the social prestige to do this.
The social question figures largely in
the race question. So the South, can,
when it will take the leadership in
inter-racial co-operation. I believe
that the South will assume the leader
ship with tne same sort of pride and
determination as it led the nation.
It has been the universal opinion of
those whoghave come in close touch
with the question that Negro leaders
do not desire or seek social equality.
They have asked for police protec
tion, better housing and living con
ditions and a chanec to'develop into
useful American citizens with every
determination to maintain their own
social life aW the purity of the two
racial stocks."
It is true that some of the jim
crow "leaders" of tlhe( South have said
that they do not want anything but
police protection and do not care to
vote, etc., ad nauseam, but the color
ed people of the North will fight to
the last ditch against any scheme of
the South to impose its plan of set
tlement upon the country.
They know that the South has, in
all its "forward" movements pro
ceeded like the crabbackward. They
know that the colored citizens of the
South have been disfranchised, dis
criminated against, segregated, de
graded in every sway, denied educa
tion, lynched, burned at the stake.
There have been riots and lynchings
in the^North, but never a burning,
and for "every lynching in the North
there have"been 50 in the South.
Nowhere in the South have the
colored, people any part in the local
government, and first of a they wish
the right to vote and participate in
rthe governments under which they
live. The colored people know that
the so-called Christian church has re
mained dumb for,,50 years in spite of
growing anarchy, and now when it
speaks it comes with a jimcrow plan.
And as usual the South* .talks of
"social equality." The real intelligent
colored people all over the country
do not wisfc. to be segregated from
oth^r American citizens in the enjoy
ment of CIVIL RIGHTS. They do
not wish, to be designated as pariahs.
This has nothing to do with inter
marriage, and it is the veriest jot to
say that it means intermarriage for
white and colored people to ride in
the same car or to go to the same
library. In the North, where there
are no" jimcrow laws, colored and
white people go together in public
places without intermarriage. Mar
riages between white and colored
people' are so rare that when they
occur, and that is seldom there is a
long story in the papers about
fevent. In the Stouth, whej-e there are
social and civil plane, the il-
legal racial mixing will continue.
That is history/
In his enuemration of what the
colored people desire, Rev. Alexander
omitted two of the most important
thingsthe right to vote and the
aoblition of public segregation. There
is absolutely no hope of a settlement
of the race question on just Amer*
ican lines if the South is to have the
leadership, especially if that leader
ship is to eb vested in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, which has
ever been the foe of the colored peo
ple from the time of the split over
slavery in the forties up to the pres
ent time when the church refuses to
merge with the Methodist Episcopal
Church, North, because the latter
church elected colored bishops.
PLEASE 6IYE ONE DOLLAR
Fourteen hundred claims have been
filed against the city and county for
property burned during the riot
value of property burned nearly
$5,000,000.
Fifty colored men have been in
dicted. The city will not permit the
people to rebuild their property un
less they build bricks therefore thou
sands are living in tents with winter
fast approaching. About $4,000 has
been raised by the Colored Citizens
Relief Committee and N. A. A. C. P.
If 8,000 colored men will give a dol
lar the cause will be saved.
WON'T YOU GIVE A DOLLAR
TO HELP THESE PEOPLE? Send
it today to
THE TULSA RELIEF COMMITTEE:
S. D. Hooker, Chair.,
J. Tyler Smith, Treas.
Tulsa, Okla., Gen. Del.
Or to EASTERN HEADQUARTERS,
1816 12th St. N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
GETTING HARNESSED UP WITH
THE CHURCH.
By E. W. Gilles.
The greatest happiness is in the
greatest usefulness.
The horse running loose out on the
Western plains, has a care-free and
labor-free life and, a certain kind of
enjoyment. But let him become har
nessed up and yield himself to the
harness and respond to the calls for
service which come to him, he will be
far more useful and, if he is capable
of it, far more happy.
The care-free life of one who is not
harnessed up to some definite useful
enss, falls short of the greatest and
most abiding joy. How seasons of
hilarity and seasons of depression
often follow each other in such a
case!
The church has a wonderful work
on hand, and needs you in it.
When pluck gets busy, luck takes
a back seat.
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